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RENBEN 2023: TRU RENAISSANCE

  • Thu, May 18, 2023
    7pm–10pm
    (This event has already happened.)

    AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

    BY ADAM LINDER

    at The Rotunda at the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center

    Buy a table, tickets, or make a fully tax-deductible donation

    MUSIC: Anthony Roth Costanzo, Mark A. Shuldiner
    PERFORMANCE: Stevie Hanley, Helen Lee, Fabien Maltais-Bayda, Lily McMenamy, Zachary Nicol, Jeffrey Swider Peltz, Stephen Thompson
    PHOTOGRAPHY: Will Davidson
    DJ SET: Jeremiah Meece
    DINNER: Lula Café
    DESSERT: Dream Cake Test Kitchen

    ABOUT RENBEN

    RenBen 2023: TRU RENAISSANCE gives carte blanche to artist and choreographer Adam Linder. In keeping with the format of artist-conceived evenings inaugurated with Piero Golia’s RenBen at the South Shore Cultural Center in 2022, which featured chef and artist Laila Gohar, movement designer Stephen Galloway, and the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps.

    RenBen raises a significant portion of the museum’s annual budget, enabling new artistic commissions, scholarly discourse, and lasting publications. Your contributions allow us to keep all Ren exhibitions and events free and open to the public.

    Elegantly wrought, at times brassily bombastic, with moments of shimmering magic, humor, and just the right amount of romance, [RenBen 2022] was all those things …” - Andrew Berardini, ARTFORUM

    ABOUT ADAM LINDER

    Dancer and choreographer Adam Linder has been invited to Chicago to design RenBen: TRU RENAISSANCE. Linder’s Shelf Life was one of two inaugural commissions for the Museum of Modern Art’s Kravis Studio, dedicated to live art in 2020. Linder is the 2016 recipient of the Hammer Museum’s Mohn Award, granted for artistic excellence to an artist featured in its biennial, Made in L.A.—the first time this award was bestowed on a dancer. Further, Linder has developed projects and performances for The Wattis Institute in San Francisco, Serralves Museum in Porto, LAXART in Los Angeles, The Schinkel Pavillon in Berlin, The Centre Pompidou in Paris, and countless other arts venues. This will be Linder’s first project in Chicago.

    Executive Producers

    Gucci
    Laura De Ferrari and Marshall B. Front
    Penelope R. Steiner
    Richard Wright and Valerie Carberry

    Producers

    Raven Thomas Abdul-Aleem and Zaid Abdul-Aleem
    Silvia Beltrametti and Jay Krehbiel
    Christine Meleo Bernstein and Armyan Bernstein
    Heiji Choy Black and Brian Black
    Marilyn and Larry Fields
    Nancy Lerner Frej and David Frej
    Hannah Hoffman Gallery
    Michelle and Glenn Holland
    Randall Kroszner and David Nelson
    Lina Lazaar and Ali Munir
    The Jarl and Pamela Mohn Family Trust
    H. Gael Neeson
    Neil Ross and Lynn Hauser
    Glen Saltzberg and Jordana Joseph
    The Study at University of Chicago
    ValeriaNapoleoneXX
    Anne Van Wart and Michael Keable
    Anonymous

    Line Producers

    Lorin Adolph
    Michael Alper and Helyn Goldenberg
    Julia and Larry Antonatos
    Christie’s
    Debra Couch and Sanjog Misra
    Martin and Peggy Friedman
    Gladstone Gallery
    Madeleine Grynsztejn and Tom Shapiro
    Jack and Sandra Guthman
    Vicki and Bruce Heyman
    Jessica Jackson Hutchins
    David Kordansky Gallery
    John and Katie McCarthy
    Monique Meloche and Evan Boris
    Greene Naftali, New York
    Sylvia Neil and Dan Fischel
    Benedicta M. Badia Nordenstahl
    Elisa Nuyten
    Anne Rorimer
    Maria Seferian & Richard d’Abo
    Margaret Stone
    Francois Ghebaly

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